OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has slammed Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) over the company's Autopilot-related fatalities as the feud heats up between the pair.

Sam Altman Slams Musk’s Criticism

The OpenAI CEO quoted a post by Musk on the social media platform X on Tuesday. Musk, in his post, warned people against using the company's AI model ChatGPT, quoting a post that claimed the model was responsible for multiple deaths.

Altman lamented Musk's changing complaints with ChatGPT, with Musk sharing that the model was "too restrictive," while calling it "too relaxed" on other occasions. The CEO acknowledged the claims about the model leading to deaths and shared that the company was working to address the concerns.

However, Altman then shared that the situations were "complicated" and people should be respectful towards them. "We need to protect vulnerable users," the CEO shared, adding that OpenAI must ensure "our guardrails still allow all of our users to benefit from our tools."

Autopilot Crashes

Altman then slammed Tesla's Autopilot crashes, for which the automaker has been sued on multiple occasions. "Apparently more than 50 people have died from crashes related to Autopilot," Altman said, adding that he had ridden in a car running the system on one occasion, which was "far from a safe thing for Tesla to have released," he said. NHTSA has also launched a probe into the technology.

The OpenAI CEO then concluded by slamming Musk-backed company xAI's model Grok, which was recently in the spotlight after authorities slammed the model for generating non-consensual explicit images. "You take ‘every accusation is a confession' so far," Altman said.

Elon Musk vs Sam Altman

The news comes as the pair have been locking horns as a court judge scheduled the trial to begin April 27 in Musk’s lawsuit against Altman and other defendants, including Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT).

In the lawsuit, Musk has alleged that OpenAI abandoned its founding nonprofit, goal and claims that the company misled him while transforming the organization into a for-profit enterprise.

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